MotorsportReg.com Blog (18)

This Is No Trick! Setting Up Social Event Registration is a Snap

October 31, 2013 by Ann Boss Maycock

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Speaking of Halloween, are you holding a holiday party for your club members or participants? How about a year-end banquet? MotorsportReg makes organizing your social events as fun and easy as organizing your driving events.

Here are a few of the treats you'll get:

Find out who's attending
Know exactly how many of each meal option you need
Allow attendees to choose the table they want to sit at or the session they want to attend
Make it easy for your attendees to find because your event is listed on our national event calendar

Topics: Features, Organizers

Pole Position- MINI Thunder's Norm Nelson

October 28, 2013 by Jennifer Ghidinelli

Norm_Nelson This month we’re highlighting Norman Nelson, founder of MINI Thunder. Together with Eric Diamond and their wives Jesse and Lisa, they organize an annual MINI only track day event at Thunderhill Raceway- Stormin Norman’s MINI Thunder.

Norman is an avid Mini Cooper enthusiast and a member of many clubs. He is active in the MINI community and previously raced with SCCA for about 10 years. He’s retired from the large industrial diesel engine business and now spends his time traveling and enjoying life. He is married and has four sons.

Topics: Customers, Pole Position

The Cure to Your Timing & Scoring Blues

October 22, 2013 by Jennifer Ghidinelli

Organizations hosting competitive events like autocross/ autoslalom, club/ pro racing, and karting must enter attendee registration data into their timing and scoring system in order to run their event. Any T&S official or volunteer will tell you this job can be challenging!

Topics: Features

Introducing Dwolla- A New Way to Pay Your Event Fees

October 22, 2013 by Jennifer Ghidinelli

We're constantly seeking out innovative new technology to help us deliver the best possible experience to our users. To that end, we're happy to announce our new integration with Dwolla. Dwolla represents the next generation of non-credit card payments. Beginning today, you'll be able to use your Dwolla account as a form of payment on our site along with credit cards and e-checks.

Dwolla is like cash in your pocket, without the cash. Their goal is to be the best way to move money, period.

Topics: Features

Goodbye American Le Mans Series... Been Nice Knowin' Ya!

October 18, 2013 by Stacy King

End of an era

alms2013025 As most of you probably know, this weekend's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta marks the final race of the American Le Mans Series. Merging with Grand-Am for next year, the combined series will be known as United SportsCar. It will be interesting to see how well the two series play together.

I attended the Oak Tree Grand Prix on October 5th and I'm glad I did. Our friends at Virginia International Raceway put on a GREAT show! Thankfully the new series will be back next year (maybe it will be cooler in August?).

Topics: Misc, Racing

The Ultimate Tool to Create an Event Schedule in Minutes

October 23, 2013 by Jennifer Ghidinelli

For those of you who can't wait to get to the good part, watch this video.

For the rest of you, here's some background.

Topics: Features

Meet the Team

October 10, 2013 by Jennifer Ghidinelli

You might be surprised to learn that we manage nearly 550 customers with just four team members. Or some of you might be surprised to hear there's more than just two of us. Either way, here we are!

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Topics: Misc

Time to Update Your Administrative Users!

October 3, 2013 by Jennifer Ghidinelli

In our world, Fall means driving seasons are winding down and clubs are changing their management team. (In case you missed it, you can run your club's elections through MSR.) It's also the perfect time of year to review your administrative users in MotorsportReg.com to verify the right people have the right access.

Topics: Features

Save Time by Automatically Enforcing Run Group Maximums

October 2, 2013 by Stacy King

To be able to cap specific groups... you must first have specific groups to cap

Many events have limitations on how many cars can be in any one run group (HPDE, PDX, etc). Instead of keeping a constant watch on who's registering for what, organizers can set up the registration form to enforce limits automatically.

Topics: Organizers

Pole Position- VCMC Motorsport Club's Carol Wong

October 23, 2013 by Jennifer Ghidinelli

carolwong The VCMC Motorsport Club was one of the first Canadian clubs to use MotorsportReg.com, even before we built Canadian dollar functionality. Based out of Vancouver, BC, they have a strong and growing program with a very holistic view on how to nurture people into passionate, competitive drivers.

Carol Wong has been involved with VCMC for the last 12 years. She started out as a novice autocrosser and later joined the executive team as the Treasurer. She’s recently started doing lapping days and is now in her first year of club racing and endurance road racing. When she’s not volunteering for VCMC, she works as a software developer. We recently chatted with her about what it takes to run awesome events.

Topics: Customers, Pole Position